Edouard Glissant Av Sam (university Of Edinburgh Uk) Coombes

<DIV><P><B>The complete poems of the two-time finalist for the Nobel Prize in Literature, available in English for the first time</B><BR/><BR/> This volume collects and translates—most for the first time—the...

A <I>New York Times</I> New and Noteworthy Book<BR/><BR/>Édouard Glissant’s novels, closely tied to the theories he developed in <I>Poétique de la Relatio</I><I>n</I> (Poetics of relation),...

Forfatteren ble født på Martinique i 1928. I denne diktsamlingen maler han frem Martiniques fargerike og dramatiske historie. Samlingen tar sitt utgangspunkt i Columbus sin reise over havet og hans oppdagelse av Amerika.

In Poetics of Relation, Glissant turns the concrete particulars of Caribbean reality into a complex, energetic vision of a world in transformation. This translation of Glissant's work preserves the resonating quality of his prose and makes the richness...